[MAIPC] Exciting Update on Biocontrol for Ailanthus

Mon Dec 24 20:59:17 PST 2018

RAPHINE - The kudzu of the tree world could one day be controlled by a
fungus.

Virginia Tech graduate student Rachel Brooks is testing how the fungus
verticillium attacks tree of heaven, an invasive species for which Brooks
used the kudzu reference. The hope: that the fungus will help kill the tree,
which grows just about everywhere.

Tree of heaven is a plant from China that creates problems across Virginia
and the country. The tree spreads and grows rapidly, growing as much as five
to ten feet a year. It often chokes out native plants, blocks drivers' views
on roadways and grows in agricultural or urban areas. There is also some
evidence that the tree is a preferred breeding spot for the
<https://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/virginia_tech/virgi
nia-tech-beginning-fight-against-invasive-spotted-lanternfly-seen-in/article
_de38a5cf-ba26-5715-b3b6-71b3c89ca25e.html> invasive spotted lanternfly,
which could wreak havoc on Virginia crops.

The plant is prevalent at the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Research and
Extension Center, where Brooks is studying it along with several other sites
across the state.

She's inoculated a few of the trees with verticillium fungus. In a little
more than a year, the fungus has killed the trees that were exposed. It's
also spread the fungus through the interwoven tree of heaven root systems to
kill off many of the trees in the area.

Brooks keeps coming back to measure the fungal effects.

"The end goal is a product that you can buy in the store," Brooks said.

https://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/virginia-tech-resear
chers-studying-how-fungus-among-us-can-control/article_85b9df9a-184c-5d5b-8c
de-4a1854901eb9.html

From: Maipc-brd <maipc-brd-bounces at lists.maipc.org> On Behalf Of Marian
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From: rush williamson <longportage at comcast.net
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Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 12:07 PM
To: Marian Orlousky
Subject: Fwd: Exciting Update on Biocontrol for Ailanthus 

Marian,

Do not know if you are on their distribution but this looks like some thing
up your ally.  If you do get Prism's stuff - sorry to bother you

Rush 

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